How to purchase an SSL Certificate?

If you own an online business then you will know the integrity of your site is of absolute importance. You want your clients to believe that your uk web hosting is secure and they are assured their connection to your site is encoded. In this case an SSL Certificate is beneficial as it grants encryption of private information that is transmitted between your website and the client using it. An SSL Certificate generates a private channel which encodes the data throughout sending, and as these certificates are distributed by trusted authorities your customers will be safe in the knowledge that the padlock icon means their data will be secure.

A requirement for setting up an SSL Certificate on your website is that your website is hosted on a dedicated IP address, if you have a reseller hosting account with NetHosted then you would have one or more IP’s included. These can also be added to shared hosting accounts and additional dedicated IP’s can be added to reseller hosting accounts too, these can be bought through the Order Account Addons area in your client area. You order the SSL Certificate at the same time as the IP, or individually again via the Order Account Addons section.

Once you have ordered the certificate you will need to give some information to us via a support email, this information is needed to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). The CSR is needed to install an SSL Certificate and the information that we need is as follows:

Email Address:
Address (www.domain.com):
First line of postal address:
Country letters (GB?):
State:
City:
Post Code:
Company Name:
Company Division:
Password:

Once this data has been received and payment received we shall setup the SSL Certificate on your web hosting account for you and your domain will be secured, showing the padlock icon to visitors that assures them that your site is legitimate and trustworthy.